February 6, 2014
Kendal's Korner
Island Moon
As some of the long-time readers may remember, I used to write for the Moon in my younger days telling about my grade-school adventures and acting as a liaison for Flour Bluff. Well, some years have passed and I am now in the homestretch of my senior year. Over the years I have been involved in many extracurricular activities, but this year I am the captain of the Upperclassmen All-Girls Robotics Team, formally known as The Pink Lady Hornets. This year there are actually five different robotics teams, two of which are allgirls, at Flour Bluff under Coach Tony Graham. Last year Flour Bluff only had one all-boys team, so we are very excited about the growing program. As robotics teams we compete in FTC robotics competitions where we are judged on our robots performance, our outreach programs, an interview, our designs, programming, and much more. So far, three teams (both all-girls teams and one boys team) have advanced to the Regional competition on February 7th and 8th in San Antonio that serves as a qualifier for the Super Regional competition later this month.
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The final group portrait at the Tarpon Ice House
More important than our success in the competition is the success we have had reaching out to the community. For our outreach programs we have gone to Relay for Life fundraisers and other community events to get the community involved and aware. In addition, we are advocating for the Sit With Me campaign which is an awareness program to get more women involved in technology. All it takes is a picture in one of our red chairs to show your support for women in the technical fields. Being an all-girls team, this campaign is very close to our hearts. When we go to competitions we are some of the only girls there, and considering that most of our team members want to go into a STEM field, it is sad to see the underrepresentation. We have been to many local businesses such as Scuttlebutts and Coffee Waves to encourage women and spread awareness. If you have an event that you would like the Flour Bluff Robotics Team to bring our robots and red chairs to, we would be more than happy to participate. You can email me at kendal.ezell@gmail.com. Our goal is to make women feel comfortable going into a male dominated field and to serve as role models for young girls to prove that girls can build robots too, and sometimes even better than the boys.
Friends say goodbye to the Tarpon... Jack Gant, Dennis Sullivan, Marilynn Sullivan, Kim Stickney, Danna Akers, Sean Hunter, Ellile Goldsmith, Lisa Small and Sierra Jackson
Paul Fain Dede Smith and Ronnie Narmour during the last hours of the Tarpon Ice House
Zack Fuller, Van Blitz, Trish and Doug Sathre and Dede Smith at the Tarpon Ice House
BINGO Packs the House Next game is Thursday By Brent Rourk They showed up more than one hundred strong. They showed up in such numbers the Kiwanis Club members who were organizing the event had to scramble for more tables and chairs. It was Bingo and it was a hit. When they were all seated last Thursday night at the Holiday Inn they pondered over the first puzzling riddle, listened to a prize drawing and then promptly began a couple of hours of weeknight fun presented by the Padre Island Kiwanis Club and sponsored by a dozen generous Island businesses. They played for cash prizes each game, with the 5th and 10th game being for larger amounts of cash. In addition to the cash prizes, the Kiwanis
crew offered many door prizes, including gift cards from HEB, Island Italian, The Sandwich Shop, and Scuttlebutt’s as well as bottles of wine. The finale door prize, a weekend stay at the Holiday Inn, was awarded to one happy winner. When it was over the energized crowd thanked the Kiwanis Club and promised to return (with friends) this Thursday (February 6) for another lucky evening. Winners beamed , a few of the non-winners, lamenting their lack of good luck, blamed the caller [yours truly] for not calling ‘their’ winning numbers, while others commented that they were going to arrive early so that they could secure the magic front table – a table that defies the odds by consistently producing winners.
Burke and the gang handled the big crowd on Super Bowl Sunday
Ran into Keith Sykes at Giggity’s with Edwin Myers
Shot time at Stingrays Grand Opening celebration
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